Over New Years weekend I was watching tv and there were a lot of Paramount plus ads and one was for the Halo tv series. I bought a microsoft gaming laptop about a year ago and up until then I've only had playstations, so I never played Halo.
The trailer showed two women first and while I never played it, I would have to believe that it is a game that generally appeals to guys. I know in the grand scheme of things it isn't a big deal but this reeks of the whole "we need more women in..." mentality. I guess they will never understand that certain hobbies and genres will always appeal to more men than women and vice versa. You don't see publishers of romance novels saying they need more male representation.
Maybe I'm wrong, but considering the time we live in I would imagine it isn't worth watching. Shouldn't comic books have taught people a lesson? They hire women who hate comic books (when I'm sure there are plenty of women who would do a good job writing) and now look at comic books. DC is making everyone gay for whatever reason. But I hope for the sake of Halo fans that it is a good series.
I'd put it on not being very good by virtue of experience with previous series. They did something back when Halo 4 came out and for some reason I watched it. Nothing to write home about that's for sure.
As someone who's played every Halo since it came out, excluding Infinite, I think most played it for the interactions with friends, not for the story. Yeah, some of them aren't bad, I'd even say above average as far as FPS video games go, but my fond memories of those games are more like going to friends house after school to play Halo 1 quad screen multiplayer on a tiny ass TV or later on screwing around in forge mode minigames in Halo 3. So I'm not sure a bad TV series is even a loss to many fans because it was never about that.
Oh, ok. I thought it was an adventure game for some reason. I can remember when I saw all these streaming services popping up that there would be competition for great writers. I was wrong.
The Halo TV series is non-canon and is expected to be terrible by those who like the Halo story.
Halo's story is not perfect, but I personally enjoy the stories of most of the games.
Why would they make it non canon?
Adaptation is all about bad writers expressing their own shitty ideas to an audience that would be actively disinterested if not for the IP involved.
You’ve described pretty much every modern day adaptation
Ask 343.
the story is minimalist, and those who want more cna read the novels, compare it to D3 or the outer worlds with in your face and poorly told narratives
Yes, the story is minimalist, and I truly love Halo 1 and Halo 2's stories.
I find Halo 3's and Halo 5's stories incredibly disappointing.
Halo Infinite's story is weird.
how was the story compared to 5 and 4? was it worth $60???
It’s going to be garbage because it’s current year… but extended Halo lore had a lot of strong women characters from the jump. The early books were actually really, really good and, for lack of a better word, super inclusive in like a Tom Clancy sense. Imo they’re really like kind of exhibit A1 in terms of proof that women complaining about representation in games were never actually in to the games. But you know this show will be about courting those same terrible women and they’re going to botch the shit out of the hyper masculine “finish the fight” soldier vibe that Halo lore was all about.
You make a good point. Like in comic books you had female and minority characters but they allowed the rabid feminists in. Same with Star Wars or a lot of things.
exctly, one of my hatreds of disneywars. only the hufems count. its why the alliance fails in rianwars at the end.
They race-swapped Captain Keyes and Miranda Keyes to black. That tells you everything you need to know.
You have Sgt. Johnson, who is probably even more badass than chief considering he's the only non-augmented human to survive the destruction of Delta Halo, but you still feel the need to race-swap the Keys? That's just bull.
HARD NO niggas. chief is now probably a tranny that they operated on for being dar ing and B R a V E !!
Yea there is no good reason to race or gender swap. But like you said it’s a clear indication not to watch
You are the kind of guy I would love to have a couple of beers with, every now and then. Not because of this post, but in general. I could then also claim I am not racist, since I have a black friend.
Ha! I’m always down for one or two beers. Can’t drink like I once did.
you dont even drink hipster craft beers that donate 2 cent out of every crate to BLM charities? RAYCIST
Shitty effects..... this looks like a scify budget kinda show.
3 trannies so far
4 total. chiefs armor looks.... off. I could swear it looks almost like they grabbed some nerd's cosplay insteaf of making a realistic armor set.His rifle looks like its a repainted nerf. and his armor seems kinda lego-like/
its probably going to be the doctor who ran the spartans, before any of the games. idk if anyone cares about that part of the story, tbh. this should be chief kicking ass, in the formost parts, and no drama. but this will probably be another CW tier Dicksney+ trashdump destroying old characters for THE WOKE NIGGA BRIGADE thats been ravaging hollywood